Alleged gunman Justin Bourque, 24, stalked the streets of a Moncton neighborhood killing cops, eluding them during a 30-hour lockdown before being arrested just after midnight on Friday June 6. This photo was shot by a local resident earlier in the day and posted to Twitter.

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Moncton Shooter Arrested, Grieving Begins for Canada and RCMP

ICTMN Staff

6/6/14

A city and a nation were breathing a huge sigh of relief on June 6 as news spread that the shooter of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers had finally been arrested overnight after a massive manhunt that had part of Moncton, Canada on lockdown for 30 hours.

Alleged shooter Justin Bourque, 24, was arrested just after midnight early June 6 and was expected to be charged later that day, The Globe and Mail reported.

But the grieving was just beginning.

After withholding the identities of the three officers pending family notification, the RCMP released the names of the three who had been slaughtered in ambush.

The victims have been identified as Constables David Ross, 32, Fabrice Georges Gevaudan, 45, and Douglas James Larche, 40, The Globe and Mail and other media reported. Ross, married for four years, had a 19-month-old son and another baby on the way. Gevaudan, originally from France, was a general duty officer as well as part of the RCMP dive unit, and Larche was a highway patrolman who in 2008 received a Commander’s Commendation for saving an unconscious baby’s life, The Globe and Mail said.

Two other officers were wounded but were “recovering well,” Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown, the commanding officer for the RCMP in New Brunswick, told The Globe and Mail. They are Constable Darlene Gaudin and Constable Éric Dubois.

One of the darkest days in Moncton’s history both began and ended in the yards of an ordinary neighborhood. The tragedy began to unfold on Wednesday night June 4, according to numerous accounts, when at 7:20 p.m. police received reports of gunshots in a subdivision in the north end of Moncton, a 70,000-population city in southeastern New Brunswick, Constable Damien Theriault told Globalnews.ca. The search was initially concentrated there, Theriault said.

Witness Vanessa Bernatchez, who fled inside from her backyard after hearing gunshots and warnings, watched helplessly as an officer was gunned down right outside her window while she and her family tried to warn him that the shooter was behind him.

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I supposed those "homeschoolings" that this scumbag shooter received, did not do well for him socially. His hatred of cops and paranoid delusions might have been a result of his upbringing. They say he was a bully, espoused love for guns and violence. And came from a religious Christian family rooted in deep zealotry. I might also suspect that he was inspired by the NRA and other pro-gun/open carry (of assault rifles in public of course) fiasco going on in the U.S. right now. Based on his Facebook rants. This anti-government rhetoric has obviously expanded beyond U.S. borders. Native Americans should not confused them as being sympathetic to our causes based on our history with the U.S. government. In fact, the whole "anti-government" movement taking place right now, is coated with blatant racism and white supremacy.